and is that it's reported that human rights violations and even killings are committed by security firms on a regular basis to an extent set to undermine call the show forces counterinsurgency efforts they'll start firing at anything that moves they'll injure or kill innocent afghans and they'll destroy property we're getting fairly consistent complaints about them everybody knows somebody who's been shot by the contractors. the lack of accountability has forced the united nations working group on mercenaries to push for specific international measures to regulate their activities especially now as u.s. military forces withdraw from iraq and afghanistan the number of contractors is said to grow dramatically us. so many military and security functions to the security companies they are not regulated and they're not control and he says we're we're extremely concerned

that we have a call in is for relation to the national and international level so that. companies are accountable but washington is reluctant to lead an international body regulate their activities saying it will find ways to hold contractors accountable but so far the u.s. justice system has largely failed to do so we're seeing around the world cases of kidnapping rape murder. and we see very very only very rare cases in which there's actually a criminal investigation or prosecution or sing out of. what experts say further privatization of war is convenient for the american government because among other reasons it doesn't have to justify the deaths of troops at home the president whoever the president may be can get us involved in conflicts only using uniform forces to do the official fighting and then thousands and thousands of

contractors to do the unofficial fighting that's under the radar screen that isn't covered by the media now here is a quote we cannot win a fight for hearts and minds when we outsource critical missions took on accountable contractors and of quote that's what senator obama said before he became president but apparently as a president now he thinks differently. with a contract as wall in america's wars bound to increase and with the victims of their crimes still begging for justice i'm going to check out reporting from washington our team earlier i spoke with derek crowe from the social justice group brave new foundation he thinks the u.s. prefers private contractors before because they aren't as easy as regular troops to bring to justice these folks are not the people that you see held up as as kind of paragons of american patriotism they're not uniformed troops they are private for profit contractors and they are much much easier for

a president to use politically because they're not who we typically think of as the troops or our brave men and women on the ground that would like to talk about it with reference to regular forces and so because of that and because they're a private company operating in kind of a jurisdictional black box you don't have the embarrassments usually i guess that you would if u.s. soldiers were on the ground in these conflicts far beyond the usual mandate and they are there since they're not as accountable as u.s. forces to the u.s. government and to the american people they're able to get away with a lot more and so presidents tend to want to use them any time any foreign force goes in and kills locals either through mistake or through over aggression or things like that it absolutely damages u.s. security and what the united states was trying to achieve in any of these countries but it's worse when those actions occur and in the local see that because they're these high paid mercenaries that there's no accountability that absolutely enrages

people and it should it should in rage both the people in the countries where it happens and it should enraged the people here in the united states is tax dollars are paying for it and in whose name those actions being taken. norway's intelligence services there's no evidence that anders breivik is connected to far right extremists in norway or anywhere else the thirty two year old who admits killing seventy six people last friday claims he's part of a wider mission his lawyer insists breivik is insane and didn't know what he was doing authorities are emon reports as anti immigration message is one that has chilling echoes across europe. and ethnic hatred that led to the slaughter of scores of innocent young people to anders breivik the massacre to which he freely admits was a justified strike against the political left for supporting open borders and multiculturalism and even though the staunchest of hardliners condemn brave ics horrific actions anti immigration sentiment is growing across europe and other

groups express their condolences and then are quick and separate themselves from are also quick to lay blame left wing politicians which they say are responsible because they allowed immigration happen and effectively pushed the scar to the edge it's a cry that many feel is not being heard by european governments as people show their discontent voting increasingly for previously marginal anti immigration parties and joining street movements like the anti islamic english defense league. of course it will have groups who are satisfied and we will have other groups who see that the governments are not doing enough they are not discussing the issues enough. in this going forward in the future i think this nor their attacks will bring this topic into the center of the attention again and they will force. officials as well as public to focus on these issues again the move towards

nationalism is pan european as well as the b.n.p. making gains in the u.k. holland's controversial good builders now leads the country's third largest political party running on an anti islam platform nationalist a truth pins redrew the political landscape this year when they won nearly twenty percent of the vote the danish people's party has also embraced anti immigration policies successfully lobbying for denmark to close its previously open borders with germany and. there's grassroots support for to disturbingly depicted on the internet by some extremists as a hero three thousand people voted for his video manifesto one you cheap and his group knights templar became a popular search topic on google i'm quite concerned that there are a lot of individuals. writing in this manifesto will resonate with.

i'm very concerned you will see other people copycatting these types of attacks in the coming months or coming years politicians including germany's angela merkel and britain's david cameron have already said multiculturalism has failed now the leaders of western europe have to stop disenfranchised cities becoming a breeding ground for far right. who lit the fuse and those brave it claims to be involved with the english defense league which pledges to protect england from what it calls the wave of the case said the e.t.l. denies political analysts are saying if the attacks in norway don't prompt an honest appraisal of the issues surrounding immigration that could frustrate the european public and create more space for potentially violent far right groups to expanded all over europe. coming up

a flight path to problems as chinese fighters head off a u.s. spy plane over its territory raising tension between beijing and washington. and bad behavior keeps his business partner behind bars find out what officials say he did wrong in a few minutes. but first britain now officially recognizes libya's rebels as a legitimate government and has expelled colonel gadhafi as diplomats it's also on freezing one hundred fifty million. dollars of libyan oil assets to help fund the rebels tripoli insists it will not enter peace talks to end the four month long civil war until nato stops its airstrikes u.n. talks with the rebels in benghazi are also making a little progress toward a cease fire british opposition m.p. and peace campaigner jeremy corbyn says britain is in effectively trying to play the role of judge and jury in libya's future. but we need to involve the cells in

a civil war between the sensational government and the gadhafi regime in tripoli and i suspect this is going to run for a very long time and incredibly nasty and bloody and there are human rights abuses being reported on both sides including the treatment of african people by the transitional government as well as the treatment for position people by the government to market their reality with on reality we've had is a war for regime change and this is now been successful and i think this is going to be subject to a lot of legal it's a very strange situation all round because britain formally recognized the government of gadhafi indeed we were providing arms and training for his forces until march of this year huge amount of trade with libya into fast amount of libyan investment in britain then the war started in libya britain strongly and they persuaded the u.n. to one nine hundred seventy three which is allegedly a no fly zone and now they've decided they're going to switch horses in expel the

diplomats from. tripoli and replace them with the people from benghazi will seems to me that we are now deeply involved in the civil war and effectively trying to play judge and jury on the future of libya surely the future of libya is for the libyan people to sort of say not western. jelled associate of convicted oil tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky has been denied parole and will stay in custody at a hearing in northern russia platon lebedev wife and daughter made an emotional plea for his early release but the judge ruled that lebedev is not eligible to be let out of prison. has more from the hearing. it was up to the small local court to decide the fate of one of russia's best known prisoners after two days of hearings and intense debate between prosecutors and the defense team the judge ruled against granting. the navy defend me how about found guilty in two separate cases in two thousand and five and twenty town they were found guilty of tax evasion and money

laundering oil what some seventeen billion rubles an equivalent of over billion dollars the defense team managed to reduce that by one year and now the two will be released by twenty sixteen now under russian law though those convicted of economic crimes can qualify for parole after serving more than half of best sentence has been behind bars for over eighty years now and they must condition for him to be released that he demonstrates good behavior and also. the latter has never been the case with blood. and his personal records the reference which was brought out by administration of the prison where he is now serving his term ruled against granting him the role of prison property and misbehavior the reference also said that they did not find it reasonable to grant him early release and force the crucial facts which the judge's decision. you know to some other stories making

headlines across the globe the mayor of the volatile afghan city of kandahar has been assassinated after a suicide bomber detonated explosives hidden in his turban it's the latest in a series of killings targeting the country's top officials earlier this month president karzai his half brother and senior aide were gunned down in separate attacks the violence comes as nato combat troops begin to withdraw from afghanistan . the white house is threatening that president obama could veto a republican debt limit plan speaker john boehner wants to cut public spending to raise the limit congress has less than a week to raise the country's trillion dollar debt. if it wants to avoid a potentially devastating default obama blames republicans for stalling and refusing to accept a balanced approach. human rights groups say syrian security forces have killed eleven people in a damascus suburb where the residents responded by throwing stones and closing roads with piles of burning tires several people were routed in the raid that

happened after electricity and phone services were cut off in the area more than fifteen hundred people were killed across the country since their brutal anti-government crackdown started four months ago. u.s. admiral michael mullen has announced that america will continue to run the air or reconnaissance missions near china this comes as two chinese fighter jets intercepted a u. two spy plane over taiwan which china claims as its territory beijing has already warned the move could damage relations with washington conahan and hollande in from foreign policy think tank says the u.s. and china are competing for energy security. right on the united states is the number one user of energy in the world and china is the number two and chinese oil eighty percent of chinese energy supplies who've by sea they you move through the straits of from once which is controlled by the american system oil emove who do elect straights which controlled by the american seventhly chinese are very

sensitive to this they tell us they worry about the fact that the united states could sort of put it on their energy john miller vein and so they're they're very kind of tense and they're concerned about keeping those sea lanes open and that's why they are so. pushy about the south china sea i think that mistake on the part of the chinese advantage is that they've been a little overly pushy with some of the smaller countries in the region and that has allowed the united states to get a foot in the door with this is start a worldwide competition for energy resources between the number one and the number two powers now energy users in the world and the fact that the united states has pretty much surrounded most of china with maces that go all the way from central asia to the north pacific that's the context in which this takes place. russia has harshly criticized the u.s.

as if in to impose travel restrictions on a group of russian officials linked to the case of a lawyer who died in jail magnitsky died after spending almost a year in a russian prison while awaiting trial on tax evasion charges ever piss going off as the story. washington says that this so-called blacklist is a consequence of what it says was a violation of city marking its keys rights just remind you magnitsky was a lawyer who worked with the lawyers for an investment fund here in russia he was accused of organizing a huge money laundering scheme was arrested but died before the court could make a decision on his case now he's a family blames the police and doctors for his death and later several human rights groups put together a list of people who they say are connected to his death it's not clear whether the blacklist is exactly the same as that one but it is reported that around sixty people are on it including some senior russian police officials agents off the

federal security service the lawyers and doctors and others washington says that it has the full right to deny access to the united states to people who are connected to human rights violations while there's been a few years a reaction of trauma a russian foreign ministry here in moscow they say first of all washington is informed of all of the steps and measures being taken to investigate the circumstances of city might need skis death there are actually several investigations being held at the moment they are monitored by president need to be defeated also the foreign ministry says that none of the people on this a list have been found guilty by a court of any human rights violations but most importantly moscow says that this is an unfriendly act which may and negatively affect the trust between a russia and the united states and has also promised an adequate reaction from

moscow will follow. russian foreign ministry's reaction to the u.s. travel ban has been echoed by russian lawmakers they say before punishing others washington should look at its own record. americans. have a lot of problems even inside the country and that's because done them a lot of people died in american prisons and yearly and do we know a lot to put the reactions of syria brutal and. have at least to food. and legal illegal activities or illegal behavior of american officials. seems to me that i'm not in a position to be a judge. at r.t. dot com you can always find more news that we're covering including this r t investigates a rise in suicides in post tsunami japan as thousands find it too much to cope with the aftermath of disaster plus. a russian manhunt for a husband with women outnumbering men by millions to report on the unusual

matrimonial rented gente all their on line for you at r.t. dot com. next to me one of the first men ever to get up close and personal with the moon but it's the astronaut bill anders celebrated photo of the earth that inspired people to protect the planet artie's interviews up next.

lander's think you very much for being with us today it's a great pleasure and an honor nice to be with you soldiers all right so apollo eight commander frank berman and comment command module pilot jim lovell had flown more hours than any other. when they tap on you well i was the rookie. but it turns out that none of us had ridden on the saturn five so we were all right rookies for saturn five and we were all rookies for a trip away from the earth with a lot of screaming and shouting during the six and a half days no not screaming and shouting you didn't have to in a spacecraft to reach at our jobs level was basically the navigator and i was the systems engineer copilot looked at the shot actually frank borman no i

think it's. definitely proven that i took the shot but i think find more might have taken the first one but unfortunately he didn't use color film and didn't use a long lens so i gets the credit what's the earthrise mean to you. well i'm proud to have been lucky enough. to take the picture that maybe define. the start of the environmental movement i mean the bigger a start. it really and has influence well beyond my imagination a lot of people not only is the earth fragile and and beautiful but it's very small and i think that last message is just beginning to creep in to people that we're not the center of the universe as people would like to think and i think that picture along with the hubble telescope deep space view you know where the even looking through a tiny little hole in the universe there's millions of go axes and so

though we have still i think a lot of people think we're the center of the universe it's clear that that's not true and i think the earth rise picture has helped people start thinking in a more expansive way but you guys all three of you you're pretty religious you had religious convictions yet faith when you see for the first time how the earth right does that somehow change your perception of god based religion. people everybody's free to believe what they want and of course if you go back you know sooner or later you have to wonder in the creation of the universe who was it or what was it that divided by zero and we get all this but i must say it did affect my religious views they became much more much broader than my narrow catholic upbringing and john graham said that compliment was for all humanity did you feel that at that time we felt the well particularly. i felt it as

a air force fighter pilot fighting the cold war. that we were there to prove not just to ourselves and the american people but to prove to the whole world that america was a second rate when certainly the soviets now the russians were. the sputnik gerund the missile gap remake in america look really bad when you think of that gary disassemble it to me. i don't think this the russians have gotten the full credit for sputnik. i mean i know he's a hero of the soviet union but you know course like me he just had to be at the right place at the right time but to be the first human to. get away from the earth we were the first to get really away from the earth but he was the first to get up there i think. that makes him and the russia the soviet union.

something they can really be proud of now you've sat if it hadn't been for the russians wouldn't have had public support for the taxes that were required to beat the commies as an air force pilot how did the cold war motivate you well i was chasing him and i say dirty commies i well i'd probably bet it but. i was chasing the russian bombers soviet bombers around iceland and carrying nuclear rockets to shoot them down if they attacked our country and there would not be the political support for john f. kennedy's sort of crazy statement about we're going to go to the moon had it not been for american paranoia over the russians over the soviets and that was particularly made clear even to the farmers in iowa who paid taxes by sputnik and gary think about the average age of a team on the ground and twenty four and looking back at it do you do you feel safe

to trust a bunch of twenty year olds now trust them more than the old guys. well that was in a period where we had some very good elderly leadership. but that leadership was smart enough to leave a lot of the technological and quick decisions up to the young people. it was very they had a lot of screening and they were tested time and time again but there was a. they the management listened to the younger people. and i'm not sure i could say the same about the soviet group thank you very much for the center you nice to be with yourself for. twenty years ago the largest country in the world to certain places of the.

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two thirty am in moscow these are your r.t. headlines failing not killing a land security contractor blackwater in court prosecutors pursue a case of overcharging the u.s. government despite the military contractor being accused of atrocities against civilians in iraq and afghanistan. norway's intelligence service denies claims by the suspect of two deadly terror attacks in the country last friday that he's part of a wider group but authorities in europe are on their guard after his anti immigration message is echoed by extremist groups across the continent. the u.k.

steps up pressure on libyan leader colonel gadhafi is london expels is diplomats and invites the rebel council to replace them london also giving the rebels access to around one hundred fifty million dollars of previously frozen libyan oil assets . takes you to a corner of the baltics that spent the past two decades tackling a soviet legacy stay with us. vilnius is the capital of live you am the city changed hands many times during the twentieth century after world war one the poles were in charge then during the second world war nazi germany took control when the soviet army drove the fascists out of the baltics the city became if you a nice competent once again in the country join the soviet union. they like saying in russia we liberated the lithuanian people from that scene germany to that i add

the following yes you did but you didn't bother to leave afterwards do we. get when perestroika go to underway in the late one nine hundred eighty s. if you are a neo was one of the first soviet republics to demand independence. was far as we are concerned felonious is the capital notes moscow is the way as has been on whale a b. in the future. the confrontation between the soviet empire is weakening senta of the rebellious baltic republic resulted in street clashes. fourteen people were crushed by tanks hundreds wounded. means that the town came to hold to when my leg was called between the caterpillar tracks i realized then that there was no escape other than death. if you won its independence in one thousand nine hundred one small baltic republic then desperately trying to join european structures and leave it soviet past behind.